The Exorcist - Limited Edition Collector's Set

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Director William Friedkin was a hot ticket in Hollywood after the success of The French Connection, and he turned heads (in more ways than one) when he decided to make The Exorcist as his follow-up film. Adapted by William Peter Blatty from his controversial bestseller, this shocking 1973 thriller set an intense and often-copied milestone for screen terror with its unflinching depiction of a young girl (Linda Blair) who is possessed by an evil spirit. Jason Miller and Max von Sydow are perfectly cast as the priests who risk their sanity and their lives to administer the rites of demonic exorcism, and Ellen Burstyn plays Blair's mother, who can only stand by in horror as her daughter's body is wracked by satanic disfiguration. One of the most frightening films ever made with a soundtrack that's guaranteed to curl your blood, The Exorcist was mysteriously plagued by troubles during production, and the years have not diminished its capacity to disturb even the most stoical viewers. Don't say you weren't warned! --Jeff Shannon

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WATCH OUT>.......2007-09-05

Just as good as when i watched at the movies. Do NOT watch when all alone.

Completely destroys me every time I watch it... and that's a good thing!.......2007-09-03

In my youth I watched every horror movie I could get my hands on, and although some of them scared me none of them utterly owned my nights for as long as this did after seing it! Never will you find a movie with as scary and disturbing (Saw fans... please be serious here!)a premise as what was put on celluloid here. Trust me... I've been trying my entire adult life and this is truly the pinnacle of horror. This is one of those movies that is so great you must own it, and yet you never watch it! And that is a total testament to how powerful this really is. Nobody in the history of mankind has ever decided on a whim to wach The Exorcist a second time for "something to do." You have to get prepared, like a week in advance! The only way you watch The Exorcist spontaneously is if you have someone over who has never seen it and you forsake your own good sense to watch them completely lose their mind! So I guess what I'm trying to say is that this is my favorite horror film of all time... yet also my least favorite to watch. Make any sense? If not, watch the film alone and with the lights off... thank/curse me later!

DEVIL IN THE FLESH!!.......2007-09-03

this movie is wicked creepy. i loved it, it paved the way for all these other excorsism movies, but this one is definitly the best. the actors were great, the story was so believable, the makeup was good, and it was truly scary. not much can do that these days, but this one still can. a young innocent girls bodies possessed, killing her off slowly, making her do all these horrible things to herself. the mother helpless what does she do. her last resource the church. the priests who give their lives to help. the oldest battle in the book: good against evil. they must do all they can to save this little girl. all the while being taunted and lured by this demonic creature. excellent story and brilliant idea. from start to finish this movie was great. don't mess with things you don't understand. the head twisting scene: WICKED.

A Horror Movie to Turn Your Head.......2007-08-26

Movies do a lot of things to scare people these days, most of which involve quick, loud music, something coming out of the dark corner unexpectedly, and then finishing with torrents of spraying, splattering blood. Not that there's anything wrong with that. But here's how horror movies never start: a sandswept mideastern wasteland, an old pill-popping priest, and an inexplicably creepy statue silhouetted against a dusky sun with dogs fighting in the foreground.

THE EXORCIST is frightening in ways movies had never been before and have never been since, although many have tried to duplicate its inimitable horror.

The setup works like this: a twelve year old girl (played by Linda Blair in one of the most brilliant and controversial performances in horror movie history), estranged from her father, lives instead in Georgetown with her actress mother. And they're happy--until Satan possess the child, which kind of ruins everything ... Enter the priests: one young, one old; one an educated but disillusioned psychiatrist, the other an old warrior of exorcism. Add a homicide cop. And hold onto your [...] for the scariest movie ever made.

If you've seen it, you don't need anyone to rehash the details, and if you haven't, then you would not want me to ruin it. So I won't. But let me just add this note to today's horror movie makers--you can spring out at your audience with a hockey-masked man and a chainsaw, hoping to make your audience scream, but you'll never achieve that split second of soul-rending, into-the-abyss-staring moment of terror Friedkin impaled on his moviegoers when he flashed the not-quite-subliminal face of the devil into the random dream images of Father Karras. Thanks for trying, though.

(This review has been posted by Marcus Damanda, author of the vampire novel "Teeth: A Horror Fantasy.")

"I ain't scared," Chris claims as he urinates in his pants........2007-07-13

This is, by far, the most absorbing, horrific manifestation of pure evil. It was conjoured from the deepest, darkest dungeon of hell and will probably implant these nightmarish visions in your inner psyche. If you're lucky, you'll be able to repress these frightening images and get some peaceful sleep. But that might take awhile.
I can't reccommend this movie, it's too much for many people. The idea of demonic possession strikes such an extreme fear in the hearts of the pure, that this movie could do some damage. At least take this advice, don't you dare watch it alone.
You've been warned.

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